Title: Shift 1
Medium: Watercolour on Handmade paper
Signed and dated 1998
Unframed: 57cm x 77cm
Framed: 102cm x 122cm
The search for knowledge and connections with others practicing esoteric disciplines is integral to appreciate Maqhubela’s work. It is not just non-figurative work but reflects a deeply personal spiritual journey.
“The law of the triangle is a beautiful, simple, universal law, underlying all physical and ‘spiritual’ manefestations. The first point of the triange interacting with the second point, resulting in the third point; the manefestation. The circle – beloved from pole to pole – infinity expressed in a simple line! The Order, like the ancients, has a lot to teach about the circle…and the dot!” – Louis Maqhubela (Martin 2010:21).
For Maqhubela, like Wassily Kandinsky, geometric forms are sacred images.
